This ebook goals to create a Christian theology of knowledge for the current day, in dialogue with units of conversation-partners. the 1st are writers of the "wisdom literature" in old Israel and the Jewish neighborhood in Alexandria. the following, specified realization is given to the biblical books of Proverbs, activity and Ecclesiastes.

What's the Bible's stance on such debatable concerns as homosexuality and polygamy? What does it need to say approximately sexual behaviors that a few could deem perverted or felony? Is intercourse regularly flawed whether it is no longer used to create existence? Ellens solutions those and different questions in a ebook that argues that our figuring out of what the Bible has to assert approximately intercourse is usually inaccurate.

To learn the hot testomony is to fulfill the outdated testomony at each flip. yet precisely how do outdated testomony texts relate to their New testomony references and allusions? in addition, what fruitful interpretive equipment do New testomony texts exhibit? best biblical students Walter Kaiser, Darrel Bock and Peter Enns each one current their solutions to questions surrounding using the previous testomony within the New testomony.

Even if the sooner debates of the 20th century have subsided, questions about the composition and style of Daniel, the social environment of the paintings, its literary context, and its theology persist. as a result of lifeless Sea Scrolls discoveries and advances in realizing the heritage of transmission, Daniel has chanced on a brand new iteration of students attracted to its position within the Jewish and Christian scriptures.